The famed Pleiades, or Seven Sisters star cluster, lies 430 light
years away in the constellation Taurus.
Wisps from a cloud of
interstellar gas and dust through which the cluster is now
passing can just be seen around some of the brighter stars.
(North is toward the top.) Photo
by Mark Killion.
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See the Pleiades, Hyades, and 16 other clusters near the Galaxy's anticenter. |
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